[Touch CDMA Windows Mobile ROM Development] codybear:
How To Unlock Your Phone

And Flash A Custom Rom

And Relock Your Vogue​

(Following was written by: Detroit_Doug)

First go here and

READ the hell outta it until you have it step by step.

(BTW use the 2.31 unlocker regardless about the GPS thing)

OK, now that you've read that (happy dance time)

Download the 2.31 Unlocker and NFSFANs WinMO 6.5 ROM.

And make sure to download one of the DCD Carrier cabs here

and copy it to your SD card as you may need this after the flashing is done.

(will get back to this tasty morsel later)

OK, now you have an Unlocker and a ROM - now what, hmmmm

Use WinRAR and extract both the files into separate folders,

Press and hold the Power button+Camera Button and Stylus in the reset hole

until the 3 color screen comes up and it says serial,

now plug in your cable and it should change to USB.

Can you taste the rainbow and it is over the land of USB??

Great, now go into the Unlocker folder you created

and doubleclick on the RomUpdateUtility.exe

(going to be called RUU.exe from this point on).

Follow the steps on the desktop monitor.

(You might get some errors about sleep4.exe - dont worry about it)

Just keep hitting enter and it will go away after the 4th or so time.

At some point the program is going to tell you to disconnect the phone,

sounds scary doesn't it, losing the connection and all - dont be,

be a brave little soldier and disconnect it and count to 10,

cant do that, get some help in getting there,

its really that important LOL once you (or your friend)

gets to 10 plug it back in, does it say USB again? good!!

happy dance AFTER you hit a key on the keyboard per the on screen directions.

It's going to eventually reboot, let it and it will be unlocked,

let it start up and do its thing, when its done - go ahead and go back into bootloader mode again

(remember power+camera+stylus twister move you did earlier, its back to that again)

with the cable disconnected and it had better say SERIAL again..

now go ahead and plug in the cable and it should change to USB.

Now go into the ROM folder and double click the RUU.exe here ...

and follow the directions that come up on the screen...

Once its done and the phone reboots, wait...

wait some more..

still keep waiting..

no not yet ...

stop touching it..

it wont help pacing..

just be patient...

oh look an Orange screen,

ok here comes some fun.

Follow the drections to go through the setup,

don't worry about it being too accurate and all as it is about to be erased anyway...

let the autorun happen once windows starts and it will reboot on its own again.

- Yes it really IS a smartphone isn't it. LOL -

OK, as it is booting up again when there is a black screen

- press and hold the red button+green button+stylus in reset hole (known as a Hard reset)

until the screen turns gray - follow the directions again

(save you some time "press the Enter key" thats the big silver button in the center of the buttons LOL)

and when the progress bar moves all the way to the right, press the call key (the green one).

Again, it will restart (told you it was smart) and now go ahead and do the setup

and customizations and do them right this time as your hanging onto them this time

(sounds weird but if you dont hard reset after flashing it,

flying monkeys will swoop in and take your phone and your little dog toto too)

OK, now remember that DCD Carrier Cab, you do, fantastic ..

so to the storage card where you copied it to - you didn't forget that step did you???

good I knew my faith in you would pay off, tap on it and run it.

It will install all the Carrier goodies to make your life easy,

and your sex life better and even improve that certain area of a ..

wait sorry wrong channel again....

just go ahead and tap it, run it and reboot.

**Note from Codybear**

I personally go through the RUU.EXE flash process 2-3 times each time I flash a new rom.

I flash it, and then let customizations run,

and then flash again, let customization run again,

then you guessed it, flash again and customizations run once again.

It's a tad bit lengthy, but due to this process,

I usually don't have any problems that most people do with any roms.

Not sure why it makes a difference, but it does.​

**Important**

As pointed out to me by Aaronpoweruser,

I forgot to mention that before flashing this rom,

upgrade your radio to a 3.xx.xx version!!

(It doesn't need to be the latest and greatest version available)​

Note on Radio Upgrading By Doug:

"An upgrade is not needed - it can help depending on your carrier,

but its based on a carrier by carrier exceptions.

I'm on Sprint with the 3.42.30 radio with no issues whatsoever

where upgrading to 3.42.50 on some carriers can create problems."​

To Get Back To Your Original (Stock) Rom:

It is quite simple.

All you do is go to the htc.com website,

click support,

Click dropdown menu to find your device,

in my case it's: HTC Touch™ (Alltel)

Then click download for the rom upgrade.

and then run the ruu.exe just like you did with the custom rom.​

To Flash From MicroSd Card:

(Written By DetroitDoug)

Yes it has to be 2GB or less and formatted FAT32

I always find my original 512MB works perfect for flashing from

as to how to get it to your card...

Extract the ROM you want to use

Find the largest *.NBH file and copy it to your desktop

at the desktop rename it to VOGUIMG.NBH (I believe the caps in naming is important)

Copy that file to the root of your formatted FAT32 2GB or less SD Card

enter bootloader mode and it should go from there.​